Automatic updates: a cautionary tale (tarneo.fr)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Tl;dr: Automatic updates on my home server caused 8 hours of downtime of all of renn.es' docker services including email and public websites

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 10 points 2 years ago

I don't want to seem rude, but in my opinion automated unattended updates on Gentoo is a bad idea.

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's what I learned :-)

Edit: no saying that isn't rude

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